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I had a very biased and offensive job interview with the snide and creepy store manager named Corey Cornett and a disheveled assistant named Joey that took place at Half Price Books in Frisco, Texas located on 3221 Preston Rd. I believe that I was not hired because I am a Latin-American. I was born in the USA and yet I even have a difficult time obtaining a job offer at Half Price Books of all places. I have a bachelor’s degree and a master's degree yet the obtuse store manager named Corey Cornett stated that the job would only pay about $8.00 an hour. That is very insulting to somebody like myself who has a master's degree and good quality work experience. Highly educated people like myself need to be treated with the utmost respect when being interviewed for a job. Just because I am Latin-American does not mean I am a high school dropout or a criminal which is how I was treated at this job interview. I deserved to have that job opportunity and the opportunity for me to rise in the company. It should be an honor for them to hire somebody like myself who is highly educated, polite, and interested in many authors, movie directors, artists, activists, and musical bands. I should not be treated like a parasite and refused for work. I believe I was discriminated against: That is so very obvious to me.
The job interview was underwhelming and very disappointing. When I arrived the disheveled assistant covered in freakish tattoos presented me with a checklist of job tasks and workplace values. I was forced to sit in a corner of the bookstore and read it to myself. The job interview itself was insulting, ineffective, and a waste of time. The store manager seemed unapproachable and bothered by my presence. I had very little opportunity to speak because he complained incessantly about difficult customers and frequently changed the topic to talk about himself which was very rude and very selfish. It's a bookstore so I did not believe the strawman argument that there are hordes of difficult customers waiting to annoy Half Price Books employees. I felt very insulted by the decoy argument that the store manager kept presenting to me. He should have talked about how the managers train the employees to resolve customer service problems and conflict.
The arrogant store manager did not seem interested in talking too much with me and did not allow for me to speak too much or ask questions. His body language indicated that he was bored with me and wanted to finish the interview as fast as possible. The foolish store manager should not have interviewed me if he was truly not interested in hiring me. I do not go to job interviews to have my intelligence insulted. I felt that the oafish store manager would not be a good role-model or a good manager to work for because of everything that I mentioned in this complaint. I felt that the questions he asked me were not related to bookselling or books, movies, and music. Ask me anything about books, movies, and music and I bet I could tell you many interesting findings and conclusions. All of his questions were insinuating, pointed, and negative. I felt put on the spot and as if he was trying to catch me making a mistake rather than honestly having a professional discussion about what I could professionally offer Half Price Books.
Like I said earlier the wage presented to me was very disappointing and insulting. $8 an hour is really awful. Nobody can survive on $8 an hour. That is not a living wage. I am a highly educated ethnic minority! How dare Half Price Books management present such oppressive wages like that to me. That is offensive and insulting. They should be happy that someone as polite and well-rounded as myself wants to work there. The leadership at Half Price Books in Frisco, Texas should feel ashamed of themselves for their greed and bias. I hope Amazon. Com runs these biased losers out of business or at least makes their lives very difficult. Half Price Books will probably be the next Borders Bookstore (which went out of business) and the biased old worthless managers will be scrambling to find jobs as they live off their measly social security checks. They will finally understand what it feels like to be oppressed.
Furthermore, the bookstore has a foul, dusty, and moldy odor. Frequently it smells like a backed up septic tank in there when I shopped in the past. As of now I am boycotting Half Price Books and I encourage smart Hispanic people to come to their own conclusions about this biased establishment.
I was not impressed or pleased by this experience. Again, Half Price Books needs to improve their interviewing process. They need extensive sensitivity and human resources training. The world does not revolve around white Anglo people and their petty biases. They need to hire well educated and amazing Latin-American men like myself who are eloquent and physically fit (unlike the fat disgusting gibbering slobs that they frequently hire there). Take a hint bigots.
You are better off without the job. Trust me, I worked at the Half Price on Northwest Highway and learned the politics quickly. The rule is if you are bilingual they don't want you there because they are threatened by you. Most of the employees had to take a job at half price books because they couldn't find a job anywhere else because of the demand for bilinguals in the job market today. So this job is their little safe haven where they can get away and not have to worry about that. One of the co-workers there is Hispanic and he told me he had to apply several times in order to even get a interview and God forbid you put that you are spanish speaking on the application, they will deny you right on spot. They have hired one other Hispanic, but they made sure they didn't speak spanish because that is a threat to them.
Secondly, nepotism and favoritism runs rampant at Half Price Books. You can be the hardest worker there, but if you don't fit in with the clique or you are not related to anyone there, they won't keep you for long. They let their long time employees get away with everything. They are lazy, they won't answer the phones like they are supposed to, they are rude to customers and some leave early before their shift is up. But yet if your not one of the favorites or part of the "clique", you will be micro-managed and eventually let go for someone that fits in. By "clique" they have several, they are the trailerpark group; the hippies that look as if they just slept on the street; the skateboarders; the druggies; grunge/goth; and lets not forget all the lesbians that are up in management. If you fit in one of these cliques you are protected in your job, if you are not, then you are out. They decided they didn't want me permanent because I was none of things, just a little to conservative for them. For a liberal, hippy place they are the most segregated and divisive against who they hire than any corporate place I ever worked for. Even Whole Food Market, Pie Five and other places are more racially diverse than Half Price.